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theultradork · 2 years
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I love the portraits in this game.
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veeranger · 11 months
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dragon ball characters if you came out to them as trans because that other post annoyed me a little bit. i dont even do posts like this ever.
vegeta: he would NOT call you slurs. maybe he would have in saiyan saga but we’re talking DBS he’s pretty alright now. he would be like tch whatever i dont care but he wouldnt call you slurs. bulma however would put her foot directly up his ass and tell you they're both very happy for you.
bulma: she would be thrilled frankly. if there’s one thing bulma loves its more women around. she would personally offer to develop capsule corp hrt and would invite you to girls only brunches with videl and chichi.
gohan: that other post was pretty much right he would say 👍 and move on. he’s the most normal person in dragon ball he would just be normal about it.
piccolo: ok he probably does know what being transgender is he’s been on earth a long time but he does not have any opinion on it. you would tell him and he would look behind you to silently ask gohan what to say because naturally gohan is there too and gohan would be like 😇👍 and piccolo would look back at you and be like 😐👍
future trunks: “oh wow me too!”
chichi: she would be kind of weird about it not like transphobic but she would ask invasive questions with good intentions. she would ask if you can have kids or something and tell you that you cant get a good husband without being able to have kids. she would tell you that she thought gohan was going to turn out to be a girl for a few years there.
goku: goku would literally not have the first clue what that shit means. someone would have to explain it to him and he’d be like haha wow thats awesome.
18: she would not fucking care.
krillin:
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yamcha: unfortunately i do believe yamcha is a chaser.
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duhragonball · 12 days
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I like to think that part of the appeal of Dragon Ball is the fact these random martial artists keep on taking on world-ending threats, because they are the only ones strong enough to do it. For that reason, do you think Dragon Ball would have gotten as good as it did if none of it's villains could blow up the world?
No, I don't think that would have affected the quality of Dragon Ball.
To be sure, blowing up the whole world is a cool way to raise the stakes. It's awesome how Vegeta tried to ragequit his invasion of Earth, and Goku had to stand his ground because the entire planet would have been destroyed if he didn't try to repel that world-ending Gallick Gun. It's also awesome that Frieza tried to destroy Namek because it was easier than fighting a Super Saiyan. It's awesome that Cell had a self-destruct feature, and the only way to foil it was to take him to a different planet with a smaller population. And of course, it's awesome that Majin Buu just went ahead and destroyed the Earth, and no one could stop him, and the story just kept on going anyway. Those are all big impressive story beats, and Dragon Ball might be poorer without them.
All that said, I don't think taking them out would make the story worse. The Red Ribbon Army arc was great, and the height of their power was that they could probably conquer the Earth with the right leadership and resources. The King Piccolo stuff was great, and the most he could do was to subjugate the Earth and perhaps wipe out its population.
I think it says a lot how the Piccolo Junior arc was such a classic, and yet the stakes were basically the same as the arc before it. Piccolo is back, and if Goku can't stop him then he'll just repeat what he did before. It works. The only real difference there is that Piccolo Junior was stronger and laser focused on eliminating Goku.
Radditz threatened to kill everyone on Earth and sell the empty planet to the highest bidder, which is cool because it goes beyond even what Piccolo had planned for it, which reinforced the notion of Piccolo and Goku teaming up to stop him.
Now you could stop right there, and continue the story with that same limit on "How bad could it get?" and things still work. Frieza planned to destroy Namek after making his wish, so that no one else could use the Dragon Balls, but he needn't have bothered, since killing Guru and the other Namekians would settle that just as easily. Cell's self-destruct could have just been some sort of biological agent that would kill everyone without damaging the planet itself. Kid Buu could have just fought Goku and Vegeta on Earth, though admittedly that's a tough call. You set this guy up as a planet-destroying monster, so it strains credibility that he's stuck on Earth for two days and never goes through with it.
Still, I think there's more to the story than just blowing up planets. Look at Super Hero, where all the major players are much, much stronger than the "planet busters" of Z, and yet it never comes up. Nobody in the story wants to destroy the Earth, so the fact that they can doesn't come into play. Cell Max seems to be nearly mindless, but he also knows how to fight pretty well, so he must have some rudimentary control over his power, which keeps him from wrecking the earth every time he goes berserk. I assume his self-destruct is designed the same way. It's contained to destroy whatever killed him, but it doesn't blow up the whole world because Dr. Hedo isn't as nihilistic as his grandfather was.
"The whole world might be destroyed!" is just a tool, one of many that Akira Toriyama had in his toolbox. The fact is, once he introduced that level of power, he couldn't really raise the stakes much higher. Villains like Buu or Zamasu could destroy every planet, but it basically amounts to the same thing, so Dragon Ball has been on that same level of stakes ever since Vegeta fought Goku for the first time 35 years ago. And if the stories have been all right over those past 35 years, then there really isn't a need to raise the stakes any higher, is there?
Likewise, if he had kept that notion off the table, and the worst Vegeta could do was to render the Earth uninhabitable or something, then we'd have 35 years of that being the worst anyone could do, and I don't think it would make that much of a difference.
To come at it from a different direction, I don't think "villains who can blow up the world" is what made Dragon Ball good. It was already good well before that came into play. And if Toriyama could tell a great story without that angle, then he's no worse off with or without it.
I was thinking the other day about how irritating it gets when fans argue over whether "O.G. Dragon Ball" is better or worse than "Z". They're the same story, after all. It's like arguing over which half of a movie is better. But it struck me that this is a big part of Toriyama's legacy. Dragon Ball is such a classic that fans talk about it like he made two classics and debate which one is the best. That's pretty damn impressive.
I think it proves that there's not some single "special ingredient" that makes the story work. Way back in the beginning, it was made clear that martial artists have a duty to use their special skills to help people, and that's been the through-line of Dragon Ball. Saving the entire planet from some world-busting menace is taking that idea to the extreme, but the idea still works, even if it's just Goku helping a sea turtle get back home, or tackling the Red Ribbon base to wish Upa's dad back to life.
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danthepest · 1 year
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I think one rleationship that doesn’t get talked about a lot in the fandom is the one between Krillin and Piccolo. Now granted, most of it is a lot more subtle and in the background (and a majority confined to the anime) compared to Piccolo and Gohan’s bond or the Goku & Vegeta rivalry, but its there.
They have a unique friendship and understanding which fascinates me to no end. They started as hostile opponents in the 23rd tournaments, with Piccolo belittling Krillin constantly (likely due to his memories of Tambourine killing the guy). As the fight progresses, Piccolo even apologizes for calling Krillin a small fry and by the end of it its not Yamcha, or Tenshinhan or even Goku who makes Piccolo rethink on how easy the world is to conquer, but Krillin. And the little guy seemed to take to teaming up with the demon pretty well. They bantered and planned and worked well with each other during the Saiyan invasion. Krillin was specifically pointed out in both manga and anime to being shocked and surprised at Piccolo’s sacrifice for Gohan.
Then you have his general support of Piccolo on Namek and their perfect cohesion durin the Garlick Jr arc.
And of course the infamous “Come on, we’re friends, right?” moment during the Cell arc. It led to Piccolo exploding in rage and exclaiming he was still Piccolo Daimao and biding his time to take over the world and “RAWR GRR EVIL” before flying off.
And Krillin didn’t buy it for a second. He read the guy instantly. Then you had Piccolo taking charge of the situation when the Cell Juniors attacked. While the manga doesn’t show Piccolo at all during that segment, the anime ran with it and going out of his way to smack a Cell Jr. away from Krillin. Krillin screamed after Piccolo when he charged in to help Gohan during the Kamehameha struggle against Cell.
Then you had cute moments like Krillin praying he doesn’t get paired up against Goku or Vegeta during the tournament only for Piccolo to grin and remind him that he’s technically praying to Dende or Krillin cheering Piccolo on before his “fight” against Kaioshin (which I’m totally still not bitter over). Or when they both have to stop each other from going in to try and help Vegeta when he self destructs and Piccolo asking Krillin for assistance in showing the kids the fusion dance again.
I just...I dunno, I find their interactions and subtle friendship really endearing and fascinating, especially since you wouldn’t really expect them to have one.
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lususrufus · 2 years
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Imagine going about your day, and then a whole alien invasion of frog robots and lizard person happens.
You run to safety and hear giant herons clearing the goddam military(778 billion dollars and y’all can’t deal with some birds?)
Later a giant blue salamander comes on the tv and says he’ll stop the invasion if some girl named Anne comes and beat him in 1v1 fair combat(you don’t know what’s fair about a giant mech and a girl named Anne but it’s not the weirdest thing happening today).
Then the girl arrives and apparently Super Saiyan Gods exist in your world and you see that fight might actually be fair.
But then she starts losing until RuPaul from the FBI Slay Branch hacks the city’s infrastructure to show every screen what seems to be her family and giant walking frogs(day keeps getting weirder) and every speaker that is hidden in every street light apparently starts blasting BLACKPINK to help her and it somehow works.
Until it doesn’t and then one of the frogs comes to help by reading a letter and it works. (This invasion happened because he got divorced?)
Then she power punches him into robot chunks(cause apparently he’s a robot) and then flies off to the flying castle and all seems to be fine now minus the crater where the Hollywood sign and hill was.
And once again the day is saved thanks to The PowerPuff Girl, or Rupaul, or BLACKPINK, or divorce or something. Hope insurance covers this.
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chumby4life · 9 months
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Only YOU Can Prevent the Saiyan Invasion!
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carnal-lnstinct · 2 years
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Hi! I saw the requests were finally open so I’m asking again, could you do a dying in Goku’s arms fic. Yes it is the same person and if I’m mistaken, forgive me🥰❤️🧡
Haha, I gotchu! Glad you came back ♥
☆☆ Pairing: Goku x Fem!Reader ( Human Z Fighter ) ☆☆ Rating: T ☆☆ Contents:  ( RoF arc, established relationship, reader referenced as gohan & goten's mother ) ☆☆ Warning: ( canon-typical violence, blood, character death )
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'If I could just hold out a little longer, then he'll show up to help win this', you repeated to help yourself stay focused for the next rush of alien fighters charging your way.
Everyone who could stand their own was already struggling in their own fight, whether outnumbered by the hoards of soldiers or overpowered by the one called Tagoma. But they didn't back down, so neither would you. Truth be told, you hadn't been much into martial arts since the Cell Games and were in over your head with a fight of this scale. Even back then things like this stopped being within your skill range, you were surpassed by your children.
An invasion by a galactic army, however, led by their malicious leader was certainly no earthbound martial arts tournament and called for everyone regardless of power to step in. There wasn't any running away, and you weren't going to let all your friends fight this alone. Especially with your sons giving their all, it wouldn't be like you to just sit back and let them fight without you.
You and the rest of the Earth's forces fought your hardest while Bulma continued to try to make contact with Whis to get Goku and Vegeta here quickly to aid the fight. You were all able to team up when you could but these guys weren't as stupid as you hoped and found ways to keep you all separated and outnumbered 10 to 1.
Being a woman at least gave you some advantage at the start as the cocky bunch of Frieza Force soldiers didn't think to take you seriously, but enough of them saw you rip through a number of their men to start getting the idea that you weren't some pushover earthling. The lot of them being a batch of chumps didn't dwindle their numbers in your favor, there were many more of them than there were earthlings. Collectively, all your allies' strengths were wearing down as well as your own and you started to get anxious about Goku's arrival.
It's Frieza you need to really be concerned with as he boasts about his vengeance over your husband. Yet rather than try to find Goku, he wants to watch you all get slaughtered for his entertainment while he waits for the saiyan to show up. This situation was going to be a massacre without Goku if it goes on any longer like this. You had to start looking into other options with no telling when the two saiyans would arrive. Even your faith in your boys' strength was shaken watching them fight—struggle unprepared for the fight for their home— as a consequence of being the sons of Goku. It was not fair, and you wouldn't forgive yourself if they died sharing the battlefield with you because of this.
As long as Frieza was willing to wait, you could try to stall some more but who knows how much longer that would be. If he was really as strong as everyone else feared, then he should be the intended target instead of this battle fodder he keeps sending out. Your focus needed to be narrowed on cutting off the head of this nasty beast to end it or at the very least buy Goku and Vegeta some more time to get here. Frieza couldn't be so strong as to withstand three super saiyans, a super namekian, and a few trained humans if Goku at his first super saiyan level was more than enough to overpower him before. And yet, the aura coming from him behind the hoard of minions set a frightful chill down your spine. It's the power he's not showing that rattles you, yet fear cannot hold you down here. If you can all muster up the strength to attack together, then you are certain you all need to share a single target.
"Hey, Frieza!" You shouted out suddenly, stilling your trembles with clenched fists and wearing a smug grin to mask your anxiousness. "You really brought your whole army to watch Goku send you off with your tail between your legs again? Was the first time not enough?" Your voice carried across the hoard of minions and while they paused, only a few actively turned to look for a response from the tyrant. "-Look at you, just floating there in your little egg carrier. How cute. My son had one when he was a toddler, too. Kinda hard to take you seriously in that thing."
"Mom, what are you doing?!"
"Mom don't!"
The two half-saiyans called out for you to back down. You know full well the difference in your strengths, but you can't keep letting everyone be outnumbered and worn out. In the worst-case scenario, Frieza simply commands the remaining masses to target you and opens himself up to everyone else to attack if they can shake that lanky alien elite. But if there was a way to get Frieza down here then your plan wouldn't be in vain.
Hovering over to a high peak of a cliff, you placed your hands on your hips and called out again. "No one here's that afraid of you, ya know! That's right, I said it! You're old news! I wouldn't waste your time throwing these chumps at us if you were really as tough as you claim. Goku beat you once and he'll wipe the floor with you again if we don't do it first!" In between your jeering at the space tyrant, you were able to share your idea with Piccolo through his telepathy, who was able to fill everyone else in and openly discouraged you from further antagonizing Frieza. Perhaps you overlooked the possibility of him just outright destroying the planet instead of being patient with you all.
You succeeded in at least ceasing that horrid laugh of his, his beady red eyes narrowing down upon you with a thoughtful finger at his chin. "Well, it seems one of the earthlings has finally lost their sanity to their fear, how unfortunate. You think you can match the power of a super saiyan and best Lord Frieza, do you?" The lop-sided smirk rose back on Frieza's dark lips, a musing finger directed towards you as he continued to humor you. "And did I hear correctly, the child of Goku referred to as his mother- You are that simian's mate, I take it. Why am I not surprised."
"I am." You confidently answered. Your heart frightfully pounded in your chest but you couldn't stop yourself now. Either he takes the bait or you really opened your mouth where you shouldn't.
But your prayers were answered. In a flash, you felt two ki signatures fill the space around you, and Goku and Vegeta had arrived just in the knick of time with the Instant Transmission technique. You were filled with relief when you turned at the sight of them, smiling with joy at the taller saiyan.
"Goku!" You shouted, waving him down. His power felt stronger than the last time you saw him. In the shock of this assault on earth, you could easily forget it had been months since you-
...Oh? There was a rush of heat shot through your back and out the left side of your chest. You lower your eyes to see the thin beam of energy disperse as it completed its passage through your body. Blood spurted from your chest and rushed up your throat causing you to stumble forward. It was so fast; you weren't able to sense it coming your way or even when he charged it up to fire at you. But its damage was clear. It went through your heart. Pain filled in the opened hole once the initial shock wore off. You swayed on your feet again, your weight pulling you backward, over and off the cliff with the distant sight of Goku making his way to you. You opened your mouth to call out for him again but it felt slow leaving your lips, almost soundless. You hear the muffled sounds of your family crying out to you with a warm ringing in your ears and the edge of your vision blurring as you sank down the high cliff side, your body picking up speed in its limp drop.
"Haha! How delightful, and not a moment too soon! It couldn't have been timed more perfectly! You've come just in time, saiyan! Any longer and I would have abandoned my patience altogether to do away with that mouthy one, but it was worth the wait after all!" Frieza's hearty laugh returned overhead.
Goku had already dove off the edge after you, catching a senzu bean thrown his way, as he flew down to increase his speed towards you. Your fingers weakly grasped at the air to reach out for him before your eyes fell shut completely. He altered to his Instant Transmission to close the gap between you and grasped you against his chest once in range, but when he caught you...
He felt it. The last of your life energy disappeared from your body. Your limp weight in his arms caused a soft, trembling "no" to escape on his breath. Goku stopped in the air and looked you over, eyes frantically jumping between your bloody chest and still face. With the senzu bean tucked against his palm, he checked you for a pulse- Even a faint one was better than nothing, and sadly nothing was all he was answered with. "(Y/n)!" Goku uttered in a panic, shaking your body enough to disturb a deep sleep. "Wake up... Answer me- Wake up!" The saiyan begged with a lump in his throat, urging for the opposite of what his senses had already told him.
He can hear Gohan and Goten over the top of the cliff calling down to him just as worried, joined by Krillin and Piccolo.
Frieza's impish grin shined, his laugh filling the atmosphere. "Look as the mighty saiyan Goku fails once again to save yet another cherished companion. It couldn't be more adequate to see the very moment you witnessed her fall" The tyrant hovered through the parting masses of his army to the front lines. "How does it feel monkey, to once again be helpless in the wake of the mighty Lord Frieza? Does it make you angry? Are you going to turn gold and scream at me?" He goaded.
Goku was still shocked, he couldn't believe what he just witnessed. Not you, anything but this. But you're gone. Just gone- No goodbye, no cushioning the blow. Your voice and smile so suddenly silenced, taken away from him, your sons, and friends and he couldn't stop it. He doesn't know how or why Frieza was here but it was the least concerning detail compared to what he was going to do to him. He was sending that monster back to hell for good. With a furrowed brow and clenched jaw, Goku held his face against yours, hands shaking as he cradled you against him rising from the cliffside.
"I-I'm sorry, (Y/n)..." He uttered lowly to your body, voice reflecting his awakened fury and broken sorrow. "Damn that Frieza. He'll pay for this. I'll...I'll make him suffer!" He slowly lifts his head from you and places a soft kiss to your forehead, whispering a final promise. "The second this is all over, I'll use the dragon balls to bring you back to us I swear it."
A fleeting whisper crosses his thoughts, leaving hope to coddle his ire.
'I believe in you, Goku. When you kick his ass, don't keep me waiting long on the other side.'
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lakesbian · 8 months
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if alec had survived to re-meet the heartbroken it would have been fucking on sight one of the younger ones he was a repeated infernal cunt to when he was like 11 would've gone in swinging and he would tase them to avoid the power and everyone would keep calling him jean-paul and he would threaten to tase them for that too except it wouldn't even be a threat it would be some "not a promise not an oath or a malediction or a curse" level genuine intent and willingness to beat the actual fucking shit out of this 8 year old for it. they would remember his pussy mind palace era and keep making insufferable jokes about aisha being his girlfriend and it would piss him off so bad. he would be like "i'm chill and normal about this, nothing about this entire thing feels invasive and/or re-traumatizing and/or exactly what i'm trying to leave behind catching up to me, i'm really normal right now i don't care and have not cared about anything in 8 years (disregard the hysterical despondent breakdown i had 45 minutes ago i've moved on and i'm calm now)" and then he would make one of them twitch and spasm in agony for like 70 consecutive seconds while calmly and sardonically blank-eyed monologuing to them about why he's better than them and they shouldn't fuck with him. and it would take him at least 72 hours afterwards to realize he's backsliding the second hardest he has ever backslid in his life because all of his emotions are in shittily-transmitted smoke signals and he doesn't know how to read smoke signals. i want to put alec in the same room with the heartbroken so i can watch him defenestrate flor. okay i'm shitposting at this point but you gather my meaning, alec's status as The Most Normal Vasil immediately drops through the floor if you actually put him in a room with other vasils due to he is psychologically incapable of not super saiyan transforming into his father the second something significantly upsets him
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Little late to the party tonight, but they really dropped the Mxy episode as a breather before hitting us with all this...
Jimmy being too distracted by his Flamebird followers to pull Clark out of his head,
and the "evil Superman" secret she discovered last episode weighing heavily on Lois,
(both in direct parallel to what caused their earlier conflicts with Clark)
and you know the fact that she almost certainly knows who The General really is,
culminating in that deep-cutting "just be normal" remark Clark really wasn't in the right headspace to hear after three-ish days with no sleep and constantly having the whole city in his ear and seeing them suddenly turn on him like that...
But what really hits with this episode is that for the first time there are no photos in the credits...
Theories below the cut.
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I also think the whole eyes/crest glowing visual cue Clark has in this series when he connects to the ship/is pushed to go all-out has something to do with what sets this version of him apart,
and maybe even the initial crash The General witnessed on "Zero Day", which is also presumably the origin of the Dark Clark we'll actually end up dealing with...
Honestly it feels like some kind of Iron Giant-type situation where he really was designed as a one-person invasion force and sent to earth as an infant Saiyan-style, but either the crash or something Jor-El did to subvert his programming altered him so that he became a blank state instead of a ready-made conquerer god.
Speaking of machines built for war (who want to be Superman)...
Given his connection with the ship (which grows with him and he literally called "the rest of me") and the tech, and that he seems drastically weaker than average depictions, I think it would be really cool if he was actually this universe's Eradicator or Cyborg Superman, and the original Kal-El actually is the Dark Clark, and looks exactly like him. Not sure what the odds of that are, but wow would that be cool.
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arjengelly · 4 months
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Got this horrible idea in my head cuz they keep popping out so much Dragon Ball content that I can’t keep up with!!!
*they’re older here I swear! 😅
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In another parallel universe: Broly was cryogenically frozen for the good of the Saiyan race and kept somewhere in King Vegeta’s castle, presumably forgotten.
The Bardock fam went to conquer Earth and Kakarot had a soft spot for the humans. He makes friends like Bulma and falls for Chi-Chi. Raditz prob killed grampa Gohan and Kakarot killed him in retaliation. Bardock & Wife go back to planet Vegeta to hide Earth’s existence from the other Saiyans. Bulma somehow finds her way to that planet with her tech. Thru her the Prince finds out about Earth.
Kakarot(now Goku)’s parents are eliminated. Prince Vegeta kills his dad for the throne. Gohan and Goten are born. Eventually we get Pan. Vegeta has Trunks and Bulla with his captive bride (semi-entrapdak relationship?). Saiyans are deployed to conquer Earth. The androids are activated to kill all Saiyans on the planet. (Krilin & Lazuli/18 have their moments 🤨).
The Go fam live in a post apocalyptic era. Trunks is sympathetic towards the earthlings and bonds with Goku’s sons. He switches sides and Bulla becomes an entitled Saiyan princess. Pan and Marron grow up tough. All the girls are in their 20’s by now. Marron can do the same disc attack move as Krilin. Both Pan and Bulla can turn into Super Saiyan 4. The girls become friends after a battle royale. Bulma is freed.
Vegeta won’t call off the conquering of Earth and the girls aren’t strong enough to stop the Saiyans’ invasion. They realized in freeing Bulma, something else opened up and they find Broly frozen with a holo-message from his father about his immense power. They thaw him and unleash him on Earth to eradicate the marauding Saiyans.
Bulma helps them find the dragon balls in the meantime to wish Earth back to normal, the Saiyans to never find/invade it again and for Broly to be less erratic (decrease his power level). The girls use Broly to get Vegeta to abdicate his throne to Bulla. The girls really like Broly a lot and could be considered a mild version of Demon Slayer’s Tengen fam dynamic. 😉
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unboundpower · 2 months
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Planet Vegeta (Sadala) timeline headcanons.
Because I'm salty canon slapped together a garbage continuity (*cringes @ the various retcons, inconsistencies, and Episode of Bardock*), but did nothing with it at the same time. CW for death and war and geno/cide and all that; the Saiyans are indeed the Saiyans.
— The Tuffles and Saiyans were native to Sadala & lived on it for hundreds of thousands of years. One can assume they originally belonged to the same "species class" before evolution caused the two groups to split and deviate from one another.
— The Tuffles became more intellectually & technology advanced far quicker than the Saiyans. While the Tuffles eventually built towns & cities, the Saiyans still maintained a fairly primitive hunter-gatherer lifestyle - only difference being that Saiyans typically lived in solitude or in very small groups (typically a mother with her children). There was little sense of community among the Saiyans.
— At some point, a few Saiyans among their kind transformed into their Oozaru forms for the first time upon the night of a full moon. They rampaged worldwide, but the Tuffles managed to protect their civilizations. They had no idea just what those beasts were, but never fully pieced it together that those were Saiyans. For every subsequent full moon, that occurred on the planet every 100 years, the Tuffles devised elaborate protection plans.
— At some point, some Tuffles actually welcomed Saiyans into their territories. However, some Saiyans thought it best to try and steal food or resources from them. They were usually repelled, and the Tuffles collectively lost their sense of hospitality. Tensions steadily built up between the two races.
— Over time, Saiyans grew physically stronger - likely because they had to rely on their own natural skills for survival due to their lack of technology - than the Tuffles with every passing generation. Trespassing worsened to literal invasion attempts, and the deaths of multiple Tuffles with every one. It became a widely accepted belief that Tuffles and Saiyans could and would never get along.
— The conflict peaked when one Saiyan, a female adult named Vegeta, managed to rally dozens of Saiyans together to try and take over the planet. To do so, she and her allies sought to wipe out the Tuffles. The Saiyans launched a coordinated attack, and because each individual's might was greater, the Tuffles struggled to fight back with their weaponry. The battle waged for days.
— Everything was decided when a full moon once again shined down. All of the Saiyans transformed, and the Tuffles had no hope of victory. By sunrise of the next day, the majority of the Tuffle population was decimated. Whoever was left, and discovered, was picked off.
— After this event, Vegeta fought for her right to rule over her kin, meeting challengers head on. As she was the only one left standing in the end of those bouts, it was accepted that she was the strongest Saiyan. She would hold absolute leadership over them and complete control of the world. She renamed it "Planet Vegeta".
— This is where the Saiyans started to become more involved with technology themselves, as they learned from what survived of the Tuffles' culture, and gradually built an advanced society. Vegeta became the first queen. However, the Saiyan's class system didn't come into effect until Vegeta had her first children as ruler sometime later.
— Her eldest child & son, Vegeta II, thought of himself and those of similar power levels so highly that he believed they deserved to be held in a more important regard than those weaker. When Vegeta I grew too old to hold her position as monarch, he followed a ritual of combating other Saiyans who also sought the throne. He was the sole survivor when it finished. The final step was to battle and kill his mother, giving her an honorable death while simultaneously proving his worth. He succeeded.
— King Vegeta II implemented new social divisions based on power. If a Saiyan was pitifully weak, they were now considered low class. If they were "average", they were middle class. Saiyans with excellent strength, he included, were first class or "elite". Treatment based on these guidelines resulted in the elites having first dibs on the best food and resources, while low class Saiyans were given scraps.
— During his reign, King Vegeta II oversaw the development of what became recognized as the Saiyan's scouters and attack pods. Scouters were merely updated from leftover schematics of the Tuffle's communicators, but attack pods were made with the purpose of being able to travel through space. The king saw a future of his kin sinking their fangs into other worlds, to conquer them and take what they deserved as the universe's mightiest race. He formed the first incarnation of the Saiyan Army, having soldiers be equipped with newly developed armor and tools they would need while out on the field.
Nursing capsules weren't invented until much later, when medical care overall evolved further. Saiyan children needed to be born to keep the race alive of course, but it was inconvenient for female Saiyans to stay on planet rearing their children instead of being active in the army. So, technology that would effectively keep a newborn alive independently of their mother was created. It soon turned to literal zygotes or fetuses being removed from the mother to grow in capsules.
A brilliant scientist invented the Power Ball technique, allowing Saiyans to transform without needing to rely on full moons. This in turn established a training regimen that would teach a Saiyan how to control their Oozaru state.
— King Vegeta II did away with the dominion ritual, and designated his first son - Vegeta III - as being his heir & next in line for the throne automatically. This solidified the naming tradition and its association with the royal family.
— Towards the end of Vegeta II's reign / In the beginning of Vegeta III's reign, the Cold family set their sights on their planet, thanks to the Saiyan's rising infamy through the cosmos. The Saiyan Army was forcibly integrated into the Cold Force / Planet Trade Organization (PTO).
That's about it I think. Pls excuse any grammar or spelling errors you may have saw.
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theultradork · 2 years
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Firing this puppy up again!
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spilledbeans116 · 1 year
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Here’s all the fics I have in the works right now (not gonna put their names cause I’m indecisive and they’re prone to change)
Almost all of them are Vegeta x Reader, because I’m into that self indulgent type stuff.
-The Big One
Planet Vegeta never blew up, royalty fic. I’m a sucker for princess stuff, sue me.
-My First Ever Fic
You land on Earth years after planet Vegeta blew up, looking for any signs of remaining saiyans. You find some, but you’re skeptical if you can trust them or not.
-COWBOYS
It plagues my brain nightly. The saiyans are an outlaw gang in the Wild West. Do I need to elaborate ??
-Howl’s Moving Castle
Basically the entire movie but DBZ-ified. Vegeta is howl of course, would I have it any other way?
-Phantom of the Opera
The phantom is hot and him being Vegeta would make him hotter.
-Silly stuff !!!!
I have lots of silly fics. One is you babysit Trunks for the day while Bulma and Yamcha are out of town. Vegeta stops by after finishing his training early.
You wake up in the middle of the night to find Vegeta missing, no doubt trying to calm himself down after more nightmares. You go looking for him and share a tender moment.
I have a couple NSFW one shots, but I gotta work up the courage to eventually post those. Even some of the ones above have more explicit scenes, but they’re easy to take out. I’ll list some of the longer NSFW ones I have below.
-Saiyan Invasion 🔞
After Raditz kills your brother, it’s up to you to defend the Earth while everyone stalls for time to bring him back. Little did you know it would work a little too well.
-SSJ4 🔞
Vegeta finally unlocks the power of a SSJ4, but he’s acting… strange. When he’s not trying to fight every other saiyan or guy on the planet, he’s following you around a bit too protectively to be normal.
-CHOMPERS!!!! 🔞
Vampires man. Vampires are cool.
-Evillllll 🔞
Trunks returns from the future to warn the Z fighters that a threat is coming to Earth. When you step out of the pod, Vegeta nearly has a heart attack. He wasn’t expecting a woman, let alone a saiyan one.
If you think any of these sound interesting, consider sticking around! Likes and Reblogs are appreciated, thanks for reading this far! :))
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duhragonball · 9 months
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Dragon Ball Super manga Ch.68-70
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It’s Granolah time.
Let me start off by saying I’ve only read the first six chapters of this arc, and I can already say that this one is leagues better than the Moro saga that came before it.  I’m sure this story won’t be flawless, but seeing how much better Granolah is makes me realize just how crappy Moro was.  I thought I was being too hard on the manga, but no, the Moro arc was just a hot mess.  
Anyway, I’m digging this Granolah story, so I feel a lot better about liveblogging it.  Let’s dive in.
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We open with a moody flashback of Saiyan shock troops attacking Granolah’s home planet decades ago.  Turns out this is a recurring nightmare he has. 
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Granolah’s been haunted by the invasion ever since, but there’s nothing he can do about it.  Frieza wiped out the Saiyans a long time ago, and then Frieza got killed after that, so there’s no one left for Granolah to take revenge upon, even if he were powerful enough to take revenge.  When I first heard about this guy, I was skeptical of the concept, since his vendetta would be forty or fifty years old by this time.  But with Granolah, that’s the point.  He’s been holding on to this grudge the whole time, and when he gets his chance to act, he grabs it with both hands. 
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Meanwhile, Goku and Vegeta are still training on Beerus’ planet. Goku learned to use Ultra Instinct at will during the Moro crisis, but Whis explains that this is only the beginning.  Goku still can’t sustain UI for very long, while Merus could do it all the time.  And Whis is even better at UI than Merus was, and the Grand Minister is even better still.  So Goku has a long way to go, which is fine by him.
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Vegeta, however, has no interest in learning Ultra Instinct, since he concluded some time ago that the ability doesn’t suit his tendency to overthink things.  He wants to surpass Goku in some other way, and Beerus offers him a glimmer of hope, saying that there’s more than one godly technique that he can learn.  The angels uses Ultra Instinct, but the Gods of Destruction follow a different path.  Beerus says he’s not interested in teaching Vegeta, but then he teaches him anyway, because Beerus is tsundere.  “I-it’s not like I want to teach you how to use destruction ki or anything, baka!”
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Back to Granolah.  At the end of the Moro arc, we met Granolah as he was stealing Seven Three’s remains from the aliens who built him.  Seven Three was part of a whole series of similar androids, but he was the only one who spent any time in the field, so he’s a lot more powerful from the life experiences he had.  Granolah’s client, Elec, could use Seven Three as the template for an army of unstoppable androids, but that’s not why he wanted the android.  Elec’s what you might call an information broker, and he plans to mine Seven Three’s memory banks to find some useful data.
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Granolah asks about his next assignment, but Elec doesn’t have any new work lined up, due to Frieza’s return to the galactic stage.  We’ve only gotten glimpses of what Frieza’s been up to since Whis re-revived him at the end of the Tournament of Power.  But apparently his activities have upset the status quo, and that’s hurting Elec’s business.  That doesn’t matter to Granolah, though, and he immediately demands to know where Freiza is.  Elec has his associates clobber him a little to get him back in line.  He convinces Granolah that he doesn’t need to run off half-cocked, and Granolah backs down and heads home.
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After he leaves, the rest of Elec’s group, the Heeters, ask Elec why he would tell Granolah about Frieza at all.  They know how he feels about Frieza, so why stir the pot?  Elec explains that Granolah’s getting too powerful, and if he ever surpassed the Heeters’ strongest member, Gas, then that might lead to trouble.  The Heeters doubt that anyone could surpass Gas, but Elec still doesn’t want to take any chances.
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So he wants Granolah good and riled up, so that when the time is right, he can manuever Granolah into a fight he can’t win, and Frieza will finish off Granolah for him. 
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Meanwhile, on the way home, Granolah gets ambushed by one of his fellow bounty-hunter guys, who wants to steal the big payday Granolah just scored.  But Granolah has him completely outclassed.  First he uses his eye-piece/computer, Oatmeel, as a decoy, and then Granolah picks off all of this guy’s allies with his sniper technique.  Granolah’s species, the Cerealians, have a specialized right eye that gives them exceptional vision. 
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So Granolah’s powerful, sure, but he’s no match for Frieza, right?  Well, Granolah plans to do something about that.  As he schemes, the Oracle Fish on Beerus’ planet has a prophetic vision that the “strongest warrior in the universe will soon rise up.”
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Back to Granolah, we find that he’s still living on Planet Cereal, even after the rest of his people were wiped out by the Saiyans.  Since then, the planet has been re-populated by another species, the Sugurians, who lost their own homeworld at some point.  The Heeters brokered a deal to settle them on Cereal, and their domed cities are built right next to the ruins of the Cerealian cities.  I really like this imagery.  Like I said, I was kind of wary of the idea of an alien seeking revenge after so many decades, but this story really uses that passage of time to full effect.
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Meanwhile, Beerus talks to Vegeta about the Saiyans, and Vegeta admits that their destructive tendencies led to their downfall.  Frieza accelerated the process, but his own father, King Vegeta III, is the one Vegeta holds responsible. 
I’ve often noted this, but I find Vegeta to be an unreliable narrator for Saiyan history.  In most stories, he’s literally the only one who remembers the Saiyan race, so his perspective is treated as gospel simply because there’s no one else to dispute it.  In this case, I think Vegeta’s putting too much blame on his dad.  I’m sure Vegeta I and Vegeta II bear their own responsibility, and it probably goes back even further than that.   But Vegeta III is the leader he remembers, so it makes sense he would see it that way. 
But he’s still wrong.  Remember the Super Saiyan God legend from the Battle of Gods movie.  The hero of the tale was trying to wipe out the wicked Saiyans, and he failed.  That story was so ancient that Vegeta didn’t even know about it, which just goes to show that the Saiyans’ problems are far older than his dynasty.
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And I guess this is what sets off Beerus’ bullshit-meter, since he dismisses Vegeta’s answer as ridiculous.  He accuses Vegeta of putting the sins of his people on his own shoulders, and even if he were responsible, why do those old crimes have anything to do with his life now?  He then reveals that he was the one who gave Frieza the idea to destroy Planet Vegeta all those years ago.  Vegeta flies into a rage, but he can’t beat Beerus any more now than he could when they first fought on Earth.
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Beerus’ point is that Vegeta will have to let go of the past if he hopes to master the style of the Gods of Destruction.  This is kind of like what Toppo had to do when he transformed into a Destroyer in the Tournament of Power.  He had been trying to avoid that step for a long time, but when he got desperate enough, he finally crossed the threshold, and Vegeta mocked him for it. 
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And now Beerus is mocking Vegeta for failing to understand this.   Toppo got stronger because he put aside the irrelevancies and focused on what mattered.  Beerus says he only focuses on destruction, which keeps him sharp.  His advice to Vegeta is that he’ll have to destroy his own stray thoughts to build himself into something better.
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Meanwhile, the Heeters go through Seven Three’s memory records and learn what they wanted to know: the location of Zuno, the galaxy’s greatest information broker.  But they also learn about Moro and the Dragon Balls, since Seven Three was involved with that business before he got captured.  Elec realizes that the Dragon Balls might explain how Frieza came back to life, and Macki recalls that there used to be Namekians on Planet Cereal before they got wiped out.  But Elec knows that there’s one left: Granolah’s housemate, Monaito.
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Back on Cereal, Granolah discusses his latest job with Monaito, and informs him of Frieza’s return.  The two of them live in this remote house, far from the Cerealian ruins and the Sugurian cities.  Even though they’re on friendly terms with the Sugurians, they prefer to be removed from their tragic past.  I find it off that their house doesn’t look much like the Cerealian or Namekian architecture.  Maybe the Sugurians built it for them. 
Anyway, Granolah considers using the Dragon Balls to become powerful enough to defeat Frieza, but Monaito warns him that the Dragon Balls aren’t meant for revenge.  Besides, they don’t have a complete set on planet Cereal.  One is in Monaito’s house, but the other was lost a long time ago.  Wait, what?
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To explain how Monaito has his own set of Dragon Balls, we cut to a lesson on New Namek, where Moori explains how Namekians have settled on other planets.  Those communities would have their own elders, just as Moori is the elder of New Namek.  And those elders would be empowered to create and maintain Dragon Balls. 
This isn’t exactly news, since this is exactly how we have Dragon Balls on Earth.  The Son of Katas came to Earth as a refugee, then eventually ascended to the role of Kami and created a set of Dragon Balls without remembering where he learned to do it.  Monaito’s basically the same deal, except he had a whole group of Namekians with him on Cereal, and he’s the only one who survived the invasion.  This story just confirms that there could be other Namekian communities in the universe, and any of them could have their own sets of Dragon Balls. 
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What I find more troubling is that Monaito’s set of Dragon Balls is just a pair.  I guess there’s no rule that their must be seven, but it’s kind of weird how we’ve always seen them in groups of seven before, and yet this one is just two. 
Anyway, as fate would have it, Granolah turns on the local news and learns that some Sugarian kid just happened to find the lost ball and took it to a lab for study.  And maybe this is why they went with just two balls, in order to simplify this moment, but they could have just as easily put six Dragon Balls on Monaito’s shelf. 
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So Granolah immediately makes his move, stealing the second Dragon Ball and sneaking off to make his wish.  I like the design for Cereal’s Shenron, or whatever he’s called.  The dragon is willing to grant Granolah’s wish to become the greatest warrior in the universe, but Granolah’s body isn’t sturdy enough for that kind of power.  However, the Dragon can make it possible, if Granolah is willing to accept a compromise in exchange.  Granolah doesn’t even wait to find out what it is.
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Meanwhile, Vegeta has finally achieved some success in using the Hakai technique.  He can only destroy little grains of sand, but he can destroy them, which is a big accomplishment.  And he’s not going to rest on his laurels.
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Satisfied that his wish has been granted, Granolah immediately heads back to the Heeter’s HQ and demands to know where he can find Frieza.  The Heeters don’t understand what’s happened to him, but Granolah quickly defeats Oil and Macki in combat, and Elec realizes that Granolah’s not just blowing smoke.  Maybe he really can defeat Frieza, but he can’t just tell him where to find Frieza, because if he loses, Frieza might take revenge on the Heeters.  So Elec asks for some information on how Granolah got this strong, and Granolah explains the Dragon Balls and the condition he had to agree to.  Normally, Cerealians live for two hundred hears, and Granolah’s 50 now, but in order to get his wish, he had to let the Dragon shorten his lifespan.  Granolah now has only three years left to live.
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Elec convinces Granolah to wait on Planet Cereal while they track down Frieza’s position.  In reality, Elec hatches a scheme to neutralize Granolah first.  Elec wants Frieza out of the picture, but he’s worried that if Granolah does the job, he might wipe out Frieza’s goon squad, and Elec wants to take them over for his own organization.  Wait, why didn’t the Heeters take over the Frieza Force before, when Frieza was dead? I mean, it’s just as well that they didn’t do this, since Frieza would have returned and killed them, but they didn’t know that at the time. 
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So how can Elec stop Granolah from wrecking his plans?  Simple, he’s going to get Goku and Vegeta to do it for him.  Having studied Seven Three’s records, Elec knows that the Saiyans fought Moro, and they should be powerful enough to defeat Granolah, and Granolah won’t turn down a chance to fight Saiyans, since he wants revenge against those guys too.  Elec is confident that Goku and Vegeta would win that fight, but what if he’s wrong?  Well, I guess he’s got nothing to lose by trying...
So yeah, to repeat what I said at the top, this is way, way better than the Moro arc. There’s a lot fewer characters, and their motive are more complex, and their plans aren’t nearly as convoluted.  We’re not sending Goku and Vegeta on a wild goose chase to like five different planets for this one.  No dead-end subplots about Majin Buu or those space crooks who tried to rob that space train. 
I also really like the way this story uses Frieza without featuring him in the plot.  The problem I’ve always had with bringing back Frieza is that he just does all the same stuff he did the first time around.  The only novelty to Frieza these days is less about what he’s up to, but how everyone else reacts to his return.  The Heeters, Granolah, Monaito, and the Sugarians have been trying to build a life for themselves in a post-Frieza universe, but now he’s back, and that upsets everything. 
Also, it’s refreshing to see Goku and Vegeta actually learning something on Beerus’ planet, as opposed to just sparring there as an establishing scene.  I’m looking forward to seeing how this plays out. 
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THE KAROSEANITES & THEIR HOMEWORLD.
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They are a slender, thin, waif-like Alien group hailing from Planet Karosea. Like their blue-skinned counterparts, they are unable to verbally communicate through their mouths but for a different reason altogether. Their ki technique comes through their throat in a terrifying form of telekinesis. Specifically, Karoseanites must speak in HUSHED WHISPERS, because the technique activates over a certain volume, no matter how well trained (or not) the individual in question is-- it is involuntary and discriminates between no one. The strongest application of this ability sees them causing earthquakes, while the weakest (or more mundane) forms are: bursting eardrums (and causing them to bleed), bodily paralysis*, and the standard 'moving things/objects' with a verbal command or thought.
Unlike the Kokytans, Karoseanites have a set sex (but no concept of gender B.M). Karoseanites are all male with no exception.
Unfortunately, Maiz is not the first Saiyan visitor, much less invader of Planet Karosea-- her mother beat her to it much before she was born. This incident skyrocketed Karne to the position of 2nd Lieutenant, as this was a case nobody wanted to take/was strong enough to clear. Karne did it with major difficulties, but made the higher officials surrender in twenty days and twenty Karosean nights-- translating to a month on most other planets.
BONUS (KARNE EDITION):
When Karne took this mission, she almost died because she underestimated the strength of their telekinesis. One of her hearts exploded. Luckily, the backup heart (Saiyans have two of them), kicked in immediately.
When Karne returned from this mission, it marked the end of her tenure as part of Team Bardock. The two remained good friends and close enough that she'd try to find ways to get him a promotion as well as her former teammates. Unfortunately, none of her attempts worked.
The Karoseanites Maiz would conquer later are actually the descendants of the original Karoseanites that barely survived Karne. They are the same group genetically and physically, but something changed in between those decades.**
BONUS (MAIZ EDITION):
Karosea is a red, orange and brown heat-based planet with yellow skies. This explains the inhabitants' ruby red skin and hairless bodies. As an adaption to the heat, their pores periodically exude steam that can melt your face off if you're standing too close. In present day, Maiz makes them wear thermal clothing that regulates their body heat. It took a while to get the process correct-- many of them, as Maiz found out were allergic to Kokytan technology. Specifically, a metal in it.
Their days are bright and long and nights are shorter and pitch black as a result of them having two suns and no moons. Water on their planet is scarce.
In between Karne's visit and Maiz's invasion, the planet fell into disrespair. They became deathly afraid of further invaders and turned introverted. The Karoseanites were so traumatized by Karne that they didn't fight when their planet was sold and made a promise to stay 'out of sight, out of mind' as long as they could stay on their home planet. The brokers that brought them stayed for some months (a couple of years on other planets) until they got tired of the mostly unworkable planet. They didn't realize they were free until a budling (what they call a child) went outside and saw their spaceships were gone. Reluctantly, they all came out of their hiding places and after making sure they were free indeed, began rebuilding. Again, unfortunately, they had trouble with this because they didn't realize their own planet had changed so much within the time they were gone.
Despite them being strictly male and being able to reproduce, they are able to grow breasts. It's uncommon but for the ones that have done so, it's been determined to be a genetic mutation in their DNA inherited by the trauma of Karne. Maiz found this (and still finds it) hilarious, as it infers the Karoseanites have a fractured sense of identity and can take on traits unalike them for comfort. Their breasts are merely cosmetic; there's no use or need they fulfill.
Karosea was the second planet Maiz conquered, after Kokytus. Because Maiz looked so much like her mother as a teenager (albeit with straighter hair), they mistook her for Karne initially. She was 13-14.
*Their ability to paralyze others depends on the opponent's base strength. If the Karoseanite is at a disadvantage, the ability won't work.
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roy-dcm2 · 10 months
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DBS Super Hero Reaction
I finally watched Dragon Ball Super Hero. Here’s my thoughts.
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I think it’s weird that in a movie with the term “Super Hero” in the title, that LOVES to make overt references to the past, we don’t get any mention of Great Saiyaman 1 / 2. Of course, it’s all an allusion to Gamma 1 / 2 as Tokosatsu-style heroes.
Honestly, it’s really fun to see Magenta POV from the outside looking in and telling us what some people THINK is going on with Capsule Corp. I imagine he put this together from the scraps of information that he could glean from Dr. Gero’s observations. It does track.
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People know about Nappa and Vegeta arriving. The Saiyan’s pod ended up at CC. And it would be easy for people to spot the Namekians living in Capsule Corp. So, you could conclude that Bulma is getting access to Alien Tech. But, Magenta also assumes that the Capsule technology is rooted in alien tech. As far as we know, it isn’t. And then Magenta jumps to the conclusion that CC is paving the way for an alien invasion… without evidence.
Obviously, Magenta is biased. Being a military organization, everything looks like a battle. He can’t contemplate that the Saiyans and Namekians are essentially refugees, and CC is just being philanthropic.
Overall, the movie is just fun! It has those original Dragonaball references for old fans like me, and the Tokusatsu stuff for the younger audience (in Japan). They are being cheeky with the Goku and Vegeta stuff. Whis forces them to fight without transforming because they had no idea what was happening in the manga. (They made this movie in the middle of the Granola arc, even though it takes place AFTER it). So, they couldn’t show off Ultra Instinct / Ego.
As I like to say, the movies are just more, and this movie gave us a bunch of really great Piccolo scenes. Him chastising Gohan, pretending to be a Red Ribbon solider, all the stuff with him and Pan. The main event fight doesn’t start until about an hour in… so, we get more time of them NOT fighting than fighting. I love it.
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This is Piccolo's movie... and I don't want to hear any BS about "Piccolo is Gohan's real dad." As much as I like Piccolo. Piccolo spends half the movie telling the audience that Gohan isn't good enough. Then at the climax, Piccolo just expects Gohan to find it in himself to defeat Cell Max. Which is the the EXACT same thing Goku did during the Cell Games! Except Goku ALWAYS believed in his son!
With that all being said… I kinda wish this wasn’t canon.
Mainly, because as good as the set up is, the conclusion feels unearned. It might be a consequence of being a movie, but (in my opinion) when you have two big character developments, at least one of them should feel triumphant.
First, it irks me that Piccolo wishes to unlock his hidden power and Shenron “throws in something else.” Why can’t it just be his hidden power? Now I’m wondering what the fuck that symbol is. And this is the second time someone has WISHED for a power-up. It feels really lame and unearned. It kinda sucked when they did it for Super Saiyan God, then it sucked again when SS Blue just happened. Now, we have Orange Piccolo on that list.
Maybe they’ll explain it better in the manga, but what made SSj1 (and SSJ2 to a different extent) was how well they seeded them before they appeared. (SSJ3 sucks because they didn’t build up to it correctly.)
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My theory is that it's a mix of Ultra Instinct / Ego, but it still doesn't explain how he managed to tap into either of them. You could say because Gohan talks about practicing the "demon drill" in secret, he's also been training with UI-UE in secret too.
Then there’s Beast Gohan. 25 min into the battle, Piccolo gets bodied, and Gohan rages out. I’d like to know why this isn’t just the SSJ2 transformation? What is this transformation? Where did it come from? I have my theories… but from a narrative perspective, it’s just a dues ex machina. SSJ1 was not a dues ex machine – it had real ramifications after it happened. Beast Gohan appeared to resolve the plot and then disappeared.
They need to do what they did with Slug and say - that wasn’t a real transformation. Then actually explain what "Beast Mode" is supposed to be.
7/10 – The spectacle is great, but the best part is the first half. Feel free to leave your comments (and theories about Beast Gohan) in the comments below!
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